This year marked a turning point for enterprise tech as spending recovered and the economy stabilized following years of rising interest rates and supply-chain disruption. While no one knows what lies ahead, here are five things we thought summed up a pivotal year.
Today: A look back at some of the most notable developments from the past year and the last Runtime Roundup of 2024.
Today: Salesforce continues its agentic AI push, Databricks secures one of the biggest funding rounds in tech history, and the rest of this week's enterprise funding.
Today: Intel's badly needed new Xeon server processors, the most interesting launch from Cloudflare's birthday week, and the quote of the week.
Today: After a parade of executive departures, OpenAI is becoming a very different company, allegations of price-fixing hit SAP, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: Microsoft reports its progress toward once again realigning the company around security, Google upgrades its AI models and bundles Gemini with Workspace, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
This week a U.K. regulatory agency published summaries of hearings it conducted this past July with AWS, Microsoft, and Google Their responses provide an interesting look into how the cloud providers see themselves, their competitors, and the current state of the market.
Today: The U.K.'s competition authority publishes the results of its hearings with AWS, Microsoft, and Google, how Cloudflare became a pawn in Elon Musk's fight with Brazil, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
Today: Microsoft rolled out its second wave of Copilot feature upgrades ahead of a pivotal year for its AI strategy, AWS throws Intel a lifeline, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: Salesforce jumps on an AI bandwagon with its trademark enthusiasm, Apple reveals more details about its secure private cloud infrastructure, and the latest enterprise moves.
A generation of cloud architects, developers, and systems engineers has stayed loyal to AWS over nearly two decades in part because of its reputation for supporting anything it launched that was used by a customer to build their infrastructure. That commitment appears to be changing.
Today: how a narrow miss on cloud growth raises questions about Microsoft's AI spending, why Nvidia wants AI-curious businesses to use its new managed deployment services, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: Lost in last months' discussions of open data formats was Hudi, but its tech will enable true format compatibility, Stack Overflow's annual developer survey, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
Now that open data formats are here to stay, unifying them to remove incompatibilities will be a challenge. Delta Lake and Iceberg get all the attention, but tech developed by the creators of Hudi could make it happen.
Today: why security software customers should hold their vendors to a higher standard, the Wiz kids turn down Google, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
